Horrible eater. Please help:)
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My brother-in-law swore he would never drink diet soda. Then he HAD to switch because he became type 2 diabetic. He switched to diet and has used MFP to lose 110 pounds in the last year. TRY diet soda for a few weeks. You will get used to it. Diet Dr. Pepper and Coke Zero seem to me to be the ones that taste most like the sugared versions.
Also, if you go to Jimmy John's, get an unwich and hold the mayo. You save a TON of calories that way. Their "Thinny" chips are better than the regular ones, IMO, and even if you eat the whole bag, only 260 calories.
ETA: Just looked at your diary. 1000 calories is a very bad idea. Set your calorie goal to AT LEAST your BMR. Then make sure you NET that amount every day.0 -
This will sound mean...but you don't want it bad enough. When you do you'll do what it takes.
First, I would suggest start logging every thing you eat/drink. EVERYTHING. Maybe if you see how many calories you are taking in a day vs what you need to take in a day might be the shock you need to see.
Second, after you see that, if that doesn't make you want to change your habits then start small, like only 2 trips to drive thrus a week instead of 3, have 1-2 sodas less a week, do that for a couple weeks, then repeat in lowering the numbers. Small changes can help as it's not a whole shock to the system at once.0 -
Then you can get the fish option when you drive through.
Let me tell you about the "fish" at Burger King.
Now it's been 20 years since I worked there, but when I did, fish was cooked in a two-step process. It can't be cooked on demand because it takes 6 minutes to cook it. That's too long to wait for an infrequently-ordered item.
So it is first cooked, or blanched, for 4 minutes, then put in a drip pan where it is kept on hold for, I think 2 hours max. After that they are supposed to be thrown out. When someone orders the fish, the on-hold fish is put back in the fryer grease for an additional 2 minutes to heat it up.
Problem is, the holding pan of pre-cooked fish sits on top of the fryer hood where it is forgotten about until someone orders some fish. Then, you don't want to get chewed out for throwing them away and cooking new ones from scratch while a customer is waiting, and it's going back in the hot grease anyway so...into the hot grease it goes.
So unless you want to eat a fish sandwich that's been sitting around for hours before being re-heated, I wouldn't order fast food fish if I were you.0 -
Just eat less of all those things. Or eat your fast food burger with a side salad. Or do ANYTHING to reduce your calorie intake.
I eat crap and fast food all the time, but I also eat lean meats, fruits and vegetables and stay within my calorie limits. There's no magic. You just have to sit down and figure out what's doable for you and then start doing it.0 -
I am the worst eater with no will power. I eat junk food quite a bit. Drive throughs at least 3 days a week. I try to eat healthy but can't find anything to satisfy the junk food cravings. And I can't give up pop (or switch to diet, yuck). Any suggestions you've tried that have worked? I know I can't expect to lose the weight with exercise alone....
Nothing changes if nothing changes. How do you expect to change your weight if you are not willing to change your habits???
ETA: 1000 cals is way too little to eat to SUCCESSFULLY LOSE WEIGHT AND KEEP IT OFF. Sure, you may drop some weight in the short term, but then your metabolism will tank, causing your weight loss to slow to nothing. Based on your stats (25yo female, 185lbs, about 5"4' - I'm guessing there), your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) at the sedentary level is 1972cals/day. To lose weight in a healthy, sustainable manner, eat at a 20% caloric deficit i.e. about 1500-1600cals/day.
Please see the following post for more explanation and tips for healthy and successful weight loss
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/952996-level-obstacles-lose-weight-target-fat-easy0 -
I am the worst eater with no will power. I eat junk food quite a bit. Drive throughs at least 3 days a week. I try to eat healthy but can't find anything to satisfy the junk food cravings. And I can't give up pop (or switch to diet, yuck). Any suggestions you've tried that have worked? I know I can't expect to lose the weight with exercise alone....
All I read in that was 'can't, can't, can't'. It's not that you can't, it's that you are choosing not to.
No-one here has got a miracle cure for you. If you want to lose weight, you need to make some changes. If you aren't prepared to make those changes, you aren't ready. Keep eating takeaways and drinking full fat fizzy drinks and come back when you are.
ETA: Why have you deliberately set your calories below the minimum MFP recommends? No wonder you are finding this hard, you practically starve yourself daily. If you ever do decide to do this properly, please read this thread and work out a healthy and realistic calorie intake.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/912920-in-place-of-a-road-map-3-2013?hl=road+map+20130 -
I see this two ways
1. You don't WANT to give up the junk food. Where there is a will there is a way. If you really wanted to lose weight, you'd be able to give up the junk. Or at least gradually cut it out. Try drive through twice a week for 2 weeks. Then once a week for two weeks. Then once every other week. Try getting a small coke instead of large. But you apparently aren't doing this. So maybe you're just lazy and don't have what it takes to take charge of your life/health.
2. You have a legitimate eating disorder. Your eating habbits could be due to a mental illness. If it really seems IMPOSSIBLE to change your eating ways, you need to seek the help of a therapist who can work on cognitive behaviour therapy with you.
Which is it?0 -
I log EVERYTHING which makes me accountalbe for what I am putting in my mouth - even on my days off or my bad days.
I also set goals/rewards for myself such as no fast food until I lose another 5 pounds or if I get in my exercise 5 days this week maybe I will just have that bowl of ice cream. But even when I do "reward" myself that is included in my log and counts towards my daily calories!
Good luck! :bigsmile:0 -
You'll never be able to abandon junk food or your sugar/sweet addiction if you try to dump it all in one go while trying to lose weight. We only have so much willpower.
It's about baby steps.
First two baby steps I would suggest:
1. Log all of your food you eat in a day. No one on here is going to negatively judge you. Once you do that, check out your daily breakdown, paying special attention to carbs, sugar, sodium, and cholesterol. Don't have to do it every day at first. Just do it for one day that you feel is particularly "normal".
2. Replace one bad food a week with a healthy alternative. Pop tarts, which are loaded with all sorts of sugars and preservatives and sweeteners could be replaced with a banana and an English muffin with organic peanut butter. Fast food fried chicken sandwich? Have it grilled and drop the mayo.
3. Biggest small step you can possibly ever take ever ever ever: Don't drink your calories. You like a tall iced coffee with cream and sugar? Start off by switching to skim milk and half the amount of sugar. Iced green tea with lemon is delicious. Water is always good for you.
That's where I would start if I had a sugar or sweets addiction.
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And when you're finally where you want to be by taking one new baby step a week, treat yourself to a cheat meal. This isn't the Biggest Loser ranch. You're not going to, I don't know, be cattle prodded for slipping. Allowing yourself a once a week cheat meal is a good way to kick up your spirits and add a little bit of fuel to the will power fire. Just don't go overboard and eat a 5000 calorie cheat meal :-)0 -
I am the worst eater with no will power. I eat junk food quite a bit. Drive throughs at least 3 days a week. I try to eat healthy but can't find anything to satisfy the junk food cravings. And I can't give up pop (or switch to diet, yuck). Any suggestions you've tried that have worked? I know I can't expect to lose the weight with exercise alone....
Start packing lunches. Don't give yourself the chance to eat unhealthy food, every time you think about stopping at a fast food joint, think about what you are actually eating, because it isn't food, it's a food-like product, loaded with saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium and chemicals. Go online and look up the ingredients and nutrition info (everywhere has it listed online now) and it'll help you not want to eat it anymore. It'll be hard at first, but you can do it. Eventually, you'll crave it less and less. I used to eat fast food often, and now I refuse to eat it, because the though of it honestly disgusts me, and if I do try to eat it, I feel sick afterwards. First thing, you need to start logging calories, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks about what you eat. Once you are fully aware of your intake it'll be much easier to make changes in your diet. You can do it. Best of luck to you
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I feel you. I'm three years into this and only about halfway to goal. I've learned a lot, though. One thing that would have been good to know three years ago is this: If your daily goal is too low, you'll fall off the plan in a big way. I would eat too little and exercise too much then crash HARD. I could make it for a few days then give up. The highs and lows are to be avoided. Don't go below 1200 calories - even if you're not that hungry - or you'll set yourself up for failure. Track everything you do and everything you eat. Stock the kitchen with good choices. If it's in the house, it'll be in your belly. Look over the community groups and sign up for whatever looks like *you*. Keep the ones that actually help. Start with small, attainable goals and build from there. You can do this!0
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Why don't you try just lessening the bad foods for now rather than giving them up entirely. Try eating fast food only 2 times a week instead of 3, or when you go order less of the foods you enjoy. Maybe replace just one pop a day with a bottle of water. Maybe also start incorporating healthy foods you might enjoy along side your fast food or whatever. If you ease into it, it might be an easier transition. It'll take you much longer to lose the weight, but it's better then giving up and never getting there at all. Good luck!0
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Which do you want more? Junk food (that you've tasted a thousand times before) or to lose weight and get healthy? Pick one.
If you're eating junk food to satisfy a "craving", then you're addicted to it, just as the junk food and pharmaceutical industries want you to be. Why do you think they put SO much crap and so many chemicals into their food? To make it irresistible. It doesn't even really taste like food anymore. But it satisfies your craving for it. If you continue on your current path, when you're my age, you'll be on 12 different medications AND obese, a slave to the medical community and a product of the system.
It's really about choice. Find your power and use it to make better choices for yourself and for your future. You know what you need to do.
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I luv my coke too but when I started my diet I had 2 cut it out completely & only drink water... I did switch 2 diet for a lil bit even tho I hated the taste & it was kind of a good thing because I could barely drink a 1/4 of a can of it... Now that I've got it under control I can have a lil bit of coke... I fit it in & drink very little of it & it doesn't seem 2 bother me now... Like when I used 2 go out & eat I would drink it with a straw & I'd end up getting 2 refills b4 it was over... Now I don't crave it as bad & I do not use a straw & sometimes I don't even drink the full glass... I think you're gonna have 2 at least cut it completely out 4 a while & let ur body get used 2 not having it... OR u can have 1 & just work out that much extra 2 burn it off but that's quite a bit of extra work 4 just a lil bit of soda but if it's worth it 2 u it is an option...0
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1000 cals is way too little to eat to SUCCESSFULLY LOSE WEIGHT AND KEEP IT OFF. Sure, you may drop some weight in the short term, but then your metabolism will tank, causing your weight loss to slow to nothing. Based on your stats (25yo female, 185lbs, about 5"4' - I'm guessing there), your TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) at the sedentary level is 1972cals/day. To lose weight in a healthy, sustainable manner, eat at a 20% caloric deficit i.e. about 1500-1600cals/day. per Fat2FitRadio.com BMR calculator
Please see the following post for more explanation and tips for healthy and successful weight loss
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/952996-level-obstacles-lose-weight-target-fat-easy0 -
Low fat/low salt ready meals is good way to start and also Pepsi max is amazing for just 1kcal per 250ml! mmm0
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Noting changes, unless you make changes.
Eat less of that stuff.
Wean yourself down.
Instead of 5 pop, alternate, if you have a can, then have a bottle of water before you can have the next, if you had fast food three times, next week have it twice, the next week once......
LOG YOUR FOOD. You will NOT realize how much you are eating. it could 3 cookies, but if your eating the triple fudge covered double stuffed type, chances are your three cookies are 200 calories, or more. Even if you go over, LOG.
Look at my diary, i have days this week where iw ent over, i logged it and got on with it.0 -
Until you get a handle on your food cravings, I highly recommend you set your calorie goal to either a) losing half a pound weekly if your weight has been stable for a long time, or b) maintaining your current weight if you've been steadily gaining over time and the reason you're here is because you're freaking out.
Select your Activity level appropriately - unless you are mobility challenged you are at least "Lightly active".
Once you have a reasonable calorie target, start logging everything including the fast food and the pop. You'll see where you're at. It won't take long before you realize you can eat some fast food and some junk and still lose weight. You just have to get your mind out of the extreme restriction mindset. If you aim for a 1/2 lb weekly weight loss, in a year you'll be feeling awesome. Besides, if you get a handle on eating at the 250 calorie/day restriction level, you can then cut down another 250 calories/day and get more like a 1 lb/week loss. Then, when you're good there, cut it back again.
That's my $0.02.0 -
Ok...heres the truth. you need to take baby steps. And remove the "I Cant" from your vocabulary.
You Like Fast food??? I do too!!! But I had to make the conscious decision that when i so sub-come to the Red and yellow signs (Fun Fact: Almost ALL Fast food Places has those colors on their signs...its done on purpose..look it up!) This is what I choose!
McDonalds: Breakfast: EggWhite Delight McMuffin (250c) NO HASHBROWNS...JUST GET THE SANDWICH and a Coffee and keep the suger n cream at a low. LUNCH: The Grilled Chickenpremium wrap in "Sweet Chili" (350C)
Sometimes i indulge in a medium Caramel Iced coffee (Appx. 250)
Burger King: I LOVE a BUN-LESS Whopper OR Turkey Burger (No Mayo no Cheese) Ask for Ketchup and Mustard or even a little BBQ Sauce on the side for flavor. This is a "Speciality" option that BK offers for their Carb Free Customers. Skip the Fried and Onion rings unless its your Splurge for the day...if so, order a SMALL and adjust your Caloried elsewhere...
Chick-Fil-A Did you know you could get your nuggets grilled?? in essence its a cut up chicken breast but its WAY better then fried! A little sauce wont kill you BUT yiu must LOG IT ON YOUR MFP!!! Choose Fresh Fruit on the side and go for a water... or a Small Iced Tea or lemon-aid NO ICE...drink Half and save the rest for another meal. Some of the Dwarf Housed have baked potatoes and other healthy options!
Wendys: I Love their Salads!! Try the Pecan Apple Salad...Its pretty good! BUT I MUST WARN YOU!!! The DRESSING HOLDS A LOT OF CALORIES!!! And so to the little packets of things that come with a lot of FastFood Salads, but choose wisely!!
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The trick ffor not grabbing snacks at home is to DONT KEEP JUNK AT THE HOUSE!!!! If you have kids and your feeding them junk,,,Your Developing them to adapt the SAME eating habbits as you have now! Which makes it hard for them to deal with healthy eating as an adult!
So buy Fruit, Veggies,...Make Tortilla Pizzas and use fresh ingrediants!!! Keep yogurt and 100 Fruit Popsicles in the house...Rice Cakes and Hummus are my FAVE low sodium snack!!
you HAVE to be creative!!! And Star pre-paring your own meals!
Hope this helps!!
If you need support add me as a friend
xoxo
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& also you'll be amazed at what u can actually fit in2 your "diet" & still lose weight... U don't have 2 starve yourself or cut out all the foods u like completely... Just make btr choices & eat smaller portions... I used 2 drink milkshakes every now & then & those r loaded with calories but now I have a weight watchers divine triple chocolate bar instead... only 110 calories & it's AMAZING!!!0
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I hate diet soda and loved my Dr. Pepper... I loved junk food , and fast food... I convinced my self that it was impossible to quit soda and fast food. Until one day I told my self I am sick and tried of hiding from mirrors , not wanting the light to be on when my husband and me were in bed, not being able to spend no more than 30 minutes playing with me kids before I was tried....
Here is what I did.... I changed everything all at once.. I did not want to live that way no more!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No pop at all if you need it for medication try drinking some kind of juice instead.
For one all week to get my body use to not having all that junk I ate nothing but veggies, fruit, and some kind of meat...
Believe me in a week you will lose that urge to need them.
Now that I have control over what I eat. I do have a pop once in a while. If we are out and lets say lunch time and there is no way to eat home so gotta eat out.. I buy something that is chicken and never eat fries buy a salad to go with it.. I have lost a lot in a year. Also take a pic and keep taking pics as you go.. So when you want to quit and go back to eating junk look at it.. You will see that you do not want to look that way again..0 -
Lots of great advice on here,
Ive only lost 10lbs so far but have in the past lost 50+lbs at one time. So I am by no means an expert or anything but in my opinion its not just about numbers and counting calories and eating this or taking this vitamin or whatever. Losing weight is more of a mental challenge rather than a numbers game. Once you get your mind set and become passionate about losing weight the numbers and foods will follow. If you are not passionate about something then you will never put forth the full effort that it takes in order to develop into something more than just a thought. Get your mind right and on track with what you really want then your body will follow.
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I agree with others - writing everything down that you eat in the food journal is a big key. I just started a few days ago on myfitnesspal and I thought I was doing great until I looked at my snacks - 400+ (I just can't have raisins and peanuts everyday for a snack). If you are having a hard time getting off the Coke's, try the bottled water and put in Crystal Light - Pink lemonade (or whatever flavor) and put in freezer for a bit. It's cold, refreshing and satisfies my sweet tooth.
I have 2 inside dogs I walk them 3 times a day for a total of around 60 mins. I also have a mini trampoline in the house - put on some music and get busy (kind of hard sometimes though when one of your dogs want to get up there with you!!! : ) )
I know, we all say it's hard to find time to write in our food journal or exercise, but I keep a notepad in my purse, and during the day, I write down what I have had to eat/drink. I work a full time job 40+ hours a week, have 2 grown young sons, 2 dogs, involved in my church, do daily devotions and take 2 online classes from the local college. If I can do - anyone can do it. Like the gentleman (rjs0416) below this post said - take baby steps.0 -
You know, people here, myself included, are usually against "diets" and cleanses, but you might be a candidate for a restricted diet of nothing but nutrition shakes or whatever, followed by an introduction of food starting with healthier stuff.0
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Here are some supplements that work people
• 7 Keto
• Calcium Pyruvate
• Chitosan
• CLA
• Coleus Forskohlii
• Dr Oz Belly Busters
• Garcinia Cambogia Extract (HCA)
• Glucomannan
• Green Coffee Bean Extract
• L-Carnitine
• PGX
• Raspberry Ketones
• Satiereal Saffron Extract
• Sea Buckthorn Berries
• White Kidney Bean Extract
• Xanthigen, Fucoxanthin, Brown Seaweed
Just say no to the supplements. You do not need these to lose weight. To lose weight you eat at a calorie deficit. It doesn't take supplements or magic pills. Hardwork, dedication and a desire to change.0 -
You know, people here, myself included, are usually against "diets" and cleanses, but you might be a candidate for a restricted diet of nothing but nutrition shakes or whatever, followed by an introduction of food starting with healthier stuff.
No... just no.0 -
Wow, great job with the 50 lbs!!!!0
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Warrior the f**k up0
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I take the Chromium GTF Chelate and 7-Keto. I also increased my fruits and veggies. Seems like it has jump started this slow metabolism.0
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You know, people here, myself included, are usually against "diets" and cleanses, but you might be a candidate for a restricted diet of nothing but nutrition shakes or whatever, followed by an introduction of food starting with healthier stuff.
@Expressocycle, Why? Please explain your thought process, esp if you "are usually against "diets" and cleanses". Why do you think OP would be a candidate for something you don't generally support? Just curious.0
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